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Conveyancing solicitors satisfaction survey
Interesting results from lawyers satisfaction survey There is no doubt that law is an interesting and stimulating career, but aside from solicitors in city law firms, where a whole new set of challenges are involved, law is no longer the … Continue reading
More gloom
1 in 65 chance of getting a training contract ? Prospective lawyers are a determined bunch, no doubt about it, and the prospects generally for graduates at the moment have never been more difficult in living memory, but trainees should … Continue reading
Legal stats
Some legal statistics Over a 30 year period from 1979 to 2009, the number of solicitors with practising certificates has risen by well over 200%. Solicitors are employed in around 17,000 separate organisations. In 2008/09, taking into consideration disclosed ethnicity … Continue reading
Endorsement
We have peviously expressed our opinion that it is nonsensical for so many students to be encouraged to apply for the LPC when there are already simply too many solicitors let alone training contracts. We take no pleasure from being … Continue reading
Interesting Law Society stats
New Law Society figures show huge increase in number of solicitors Newly published Law Society data shows that the number of qualified solicitors in England and Wales has risen massively in the last 30 years to a current figure of … Continue reading
New way of becoming a solicitor – good or bad ?
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT ON LEGAL QUALIFICATION ROUTES Finally and long overdue, it now appears there will be a new system to enable a slightly faster, less fragmented and crucially potentially cheaper method of becoming a lawyer. In addition, this course seem … Continue reading
Alternatives to solicitor or barrister
Whilst you may be determined and understandably so, and able in academic terms, prospects for a career in the law have never been so challenging and many law students can become blinkered to the fact that legal qualifications can be … Continue reading
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